sunsetsystems wrote on Saturday, April 01, 2006:
The EOB code also posts payments to SQL-Ledger. It would be reasonable to factor out an includable module to make it easier for other parts of OpenEMR to do that also.
Understand that the "front office payments" code was created mainly so that payments received at the front desk can be easily tallied up and accounted for at the end of the day, or at the end of a shift. Anyone who runs a retail business understands the importance of this.
Having said all this, it’s not really necessary for this code to post to SQL-Ledger amounts paid on encounters that were already billed – the back office can certainly re-enter those manually and they will not be frequent; it’s just a useful level of automation.
Agreed that a link from payments to encounters may be useful, though there would rarely be any ambiguity in the case of copays since the dates will match.
– Rod
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